On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 11:29:38AM -0500, dane_at_mk.telcordia.com wrote:
>
> > "Matthew W. Roberts" <matt_at_lehi.tamu.edu> writes:
> >
> > > There are obviously many ideas about themes and how to implement
> > > them. I'm wondering ... would it make sense to take an rfc approach
> > > with this issue? I would be willing to coordinate such an effort
> > > if that would help. I'm not an FVWM expert by any means, but I
> > > am willing to do what I can.
> >
> > Always willing to expose my ignorance, I don't know what an "rfc
> > approach" would be like. I've read RFCs, I'm just not familiar with
> > the creation process.
> >
> > I'd like to pursue this as patches to "sample.fvwmrc/decor_examples"
> > that would put a few basic decors into fvwm2 itself and then the
> > themes could reside wherever and be built on top. Note how
> > "decor_examples" creates a "DecorMenu". I would hope that part of
> > creating a theme would be to add an entry to the "DecorMenu".
>
> Uh, with all the work I spent with style changes, couldn't we
> just forget about decors and do it with separate files that
> read in certain groups of styles? Perhaps we need a better
> 'UseStyle' style that can be updated at run time.
Actually, I think a combined approach would be nice. One thing I don't
like about the way themes work in KDE and gnome is how a theme doesn't
allow for settings of colors that don't have to do with a theme, and
selecting a new theme completely trashes little tweaks you might have had
before.
I think the ability to have some global decors might allow a file-based
theme be more flexible, and users would be able to choose what it is that
a theme is allowed to change wrt look or feel.
> Al this 'Theme' stuff is closely related to a potential future
> configuration fvwm module/application/script. If we can write
> or edit the config files with such a tool we are already halfway
> there. Can FvwmForm be our config tool? What I dream about is
> an application that fakes a window or menu and where you can click
> on the parts to get a dialog to change the corresponding settings.
> If the output of such scripts is is grouped in several files,
> implementing a theme would be as easy as replacing one or more of
> the files and perhaps restart fvwm (I hope that this is not
> necessary).
If not FvwmForm, then tk :-)
-peace
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